After watching South Park's rerun from last night with the Paris Hilton cameo in the "nasty stupid slut" i started wondering. Do cartoon shows like South Park have to get permission to use a celebrity's character in the show. In a lot of shows especially south park celebritys are often shown in derogatory roles. For example I do not see how Paris Hilton could approve of how she was portrayed in that episode

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6/8/2007 12:59:03 PM

obviously no

or there would be no end to lawsuits involving celebs on SP and Fam guy

I can think of:

- Luke Perry (gay in family guy)

- Tom Cruise and John Travolta (from SP in the closet episode)

- Sally Struthers (as jaba the hut)

I could list more, but the point is, all of these celebs are not giving permission.

6/8/2007 1:23:04 PM

watch any episode of Robot Chicken

6/8/2007 1:27:53 PM

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070606/193130.shtml

parody is free speech

6/8/2007 1:46:05 PM

parroty

6/8/2007 1:50:00 PM

Quote :

"obviously no or there would be no end to lawsuits involving celebs on SP and Fam guy I can think of: - Luke Perry (gay in family guy)"

Somehow I think he'd have a hard time suing for an episode he provided the voice for.

6/8/2007 2:02:32 PM

pwnt

6/8/2007 2:07:36 PM

I used to like the cameo's on the old Scooby Doo's.....Sonny and Cher, the three stooges, harlem globe trotters. Good stuff.

6/8/2007 2:24:35 PM

It's not a cameo when the character plays a part throughout the entire effing story. And plurals aren't formed with apostrophes.

6/8/2007 2:26:15 PM

^high blood pressure much?

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